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Mar 10, 2017
03/17
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Resources: A large list of articles, books, research papers, and other resources are available in the Zotero bibliography: https://www.zotero.org/groups/remote__distributed_teams/items Abstract: A lot of dev teams are going remote now, but without the correct infrastructure and processes in place you may not be able to support those remote workers team members. During this session we’ll discuss some of the preparations you should make before bringing remote staff on board, as well as how to...
Topics: telecommuting, distributed teams, remote, telecommute, work from home, management, communication,...
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Jun 30, 2014
06/14
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VM Brasseur
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A recording of a presentation from Open Source Bridge 2014 . The slides are also included. With tens of millions of items in its collections, Internet Archive is one of the largest libraries in the world. It provides free and open access to all of its materials to anyone with an internet connection, making it a treasure trove for researchers, historians, and curious individuals. Of course, having a collection that large doesn’t help anyone if it’s difficult to access. To help with this,...
Topics: internet archive, wayback machine, open library, ias3, ias3api, ia-wrapper, computer programming,...
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Jul 29, 2014
07/14
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VM Brasseur
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Introduction This video (as well as the slides, also contained in this item), are from VM Brasseur's Crash Course in Tech Management talk at OSCON 2014 . A high quality version of this video is available from O'Reilly Media . I suggest you check it out, since it actually looks/sounds decent. ;-) Session Description “Wow, are you ever a great programmer! You’re such a great programmer that we’re going to make you a manager!” A promotion! Calloo! Callay! Except…the truth of the matter...
Topics: software development, management, technical management, OSCON 2014, oscon14, oscon
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Jun 13, 2017
06/17
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VM Brasseur
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Description With tens of millions of items in its collections, Internet Archive is one of the largest libraries in the world. It provides free and open access to all of its materials to anyone with an internet connection, making it a treasure trove for researchers, historians, and curious individuals. Of course, having a collection that large doesn’t help anyone if it’s difficult to access. To help with this, Internet Archive has released a number of open APIs and tools to allow people to...
Topics: open source, FOSS, Internet Archive, internetarchive, API, APIs, programming, software programming,...
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Jun 30, 2014
06/14
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VM Brasseur
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Managing is a skill which you can master just as you did programming. This session will introduce you to many of the skills and resources you’ll need to become a successful tech manager (and keep your team from wanting to string you up). The slides for this talk are also available in this item. Please see the included PDF. ‘Programmer’ and ‘Manager’ are two different titles for a reason: they’re two different jobs and skill sets. If you have managerial aspirations (or have had them...
Topics: software development, management, technical management, Open Source Bridge 2014, osb14
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Oct 22, 2018
10/18
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VM Brasseur
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Description: So your company is going to release an internal project as open source. Are you ready for your new responsibilities? You could just throw the code up on a forge like GitHub or GitLab, but it’s unlikely to receive attention or provide much benefit to the company. Open sourcing an internal project requires a lot of thought and work. Releasing a project as open source requires changes to the development, build, and release workflow. This is not about the code per se; it’s the...
Topic: software development, open source, free software, free and open source software, FOSS, F/LOSS, OSS,...
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Jun 10, 2016
06/16
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VM Brasseur
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Cutting Some Slack: Decoding IRC Please provide feedback for this talk! Answer these two simple questions: http://goo.gl/forms/tsraYsZ8sHgQZZnr1 Resources Getting started with IRC on opensource.com IRC quick start guide on opensource.com RFC 2812: IRC Talk Description IRC is old. IRC is arcane. IRC is hard to set up. IRC has no scrollback by default. IRC has the usability of a broken down car. IRC is also the chat solution of choice for thousands of free/open source projects. It's freely...
Topics: open source, FOSS, IRC, SELF2016, selinuxfest
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Oct 25, 2018
10/18
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VM Brasseur
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Description Learn how to craft superb submissions to your favorite conference CfPs (call for papers). Our trainer will be VM Brasseur. Whether you're an experienced conference speaker or a newbie, there's something for you to learn about creating the best submissions possible. Slides With speaker notes Without speaker notes Audio Recorded from Zoom (all voices) Recorded from Audacity (my voice only)
Topic: software development, public speaking, technical presentations, tech conference
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Apr 27, 2017
04/17
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VM Brasseur
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Topics: management, technical management, peersconf, peersconf2017
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Mar 8, 2017
03/17
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VM Brasseur
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Introduction : This is a screencast of my presentation at ConFoo Montreal in 2017. I accidentally recorded my presenter screen rather than the audience view (as I usually do), so you get to see my speaker notes in this video. You lucky dog, you. Resources : There is a bibliography of articles, books, and research for this talk. It's located on Zotero: https://www.zotero.org/groups/crash_course_in_tech_management/items Abstract : 'Programmer' and 'Manager' are two different titles for a reason:...
Topics: confoo2017, confoo, management
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Feb 2, 2016
02/16
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VM Brasseur
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Slides for this presentation . VM Brasseur https://linux.conf.au/schedule/30354/view_talk With tens of millions of items in its collections, Internet Archive is one of the largest libraries in the world. It provides free and open access to all of its materials to anyone with an internet connection, making it a treasure trove for researchers, historians, and curious individuals. Of course, having a collection that large doesn't help anyone if it's difficult to access. To help with this, Internet...
Topics: lca, lca2016, Internet Archive, internet archive, APIs, application programming interfaces,...
Description With tens of millions of items in its collections, Internet Archive is one of the largest libraries in the world. It provides free and open access to all of its materials to anyone with an internet connection, making it a treasure trove for researchers, historians, and curious individuals. Of course, having a collection that large doesnât help anyone if itâs difficult to access. To help with this, Internet Archive has released a number of open APIs and tools to allow people to...
Topics: open source, FOSS, Internet Archive, internetarchive, API, APIs, programming, software programming,...
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Mar 15, 2017
03/17
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VM Brasseur
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Abstract : This is what winning looks like * New world of corporate involvement in FOSS * How we can help keep FOSS FO while helping the corporations embrace it Image Credits : Love. Elevationman on Flickr; CC BY Linux. doctorserone on Flickr; CC BY Internet Archive Logo. Wikimedia Commons. Public Domain Perl. Perl Foundation O'Reilly. Wikimedia Commons. Fair use. Hug. plumnutz on Flickr; CC BY-NC 4 Freedoms. GNU Foundation; screenshot by author Open Source Definition. Open...
Topics: foss, open source, opensource, flossuk
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Jul 30, 2014
07/14
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VM Brasseur
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Introduction This video (as well as the slides, also contained in this item), are from VM Brasseur's How We Went Remote talk at OSCON 2014 . A high quality version of this video is available from O'Reilly Media . I suggest you check it out, since it actually looks/sounds decent. ;-) Session Description A lot of engineering teams are considering going remote now. And why not? There are excellent people everywhere. Why limit yourself only to those who can come into the office? Because you may not...
Topics: software development, management, technical management, OSCON 2014, oscon14, oscon, telecommuting,...
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Mar 4, 2017
03/17
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VM Brasseur
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While sharing of and collaborating on software has been around as long as there's been code, the open source concept and movement only came into being in the late 1990s. There are many who remember a time before open source. Of those, most helped to shape the philosophy, laws, governance, and policies which are the foundation of the free and open source movement we enjoy today. But what happens when these people decide to retire? Who will carry the baton and lead the movement? Thankfully these...
Topics: scale, scale15x, scale 15x, socal linux expo, open source, FOSS, succession planning
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Oct 3, 2017
10/17
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Deb Nicholson & VM Brasseur
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Collaborative software building has its own special challenges: globally distributed teams, stakeholders who are coming from very different perspectives, and often a mix of paid and volunteer contributors. The good news is that there are lots of ways to improve a team’s communications and collective goal-setting as well as solid and reproducible ways to set expectations and build accountability without getting lost in the wilderness. The bad news is that it rarely works the way you expect...
Topics: velocity, velocityconf, velocitynyc, velocity2017, velocitynyc2017, software development, community...
